Accession number
MS M.701
Object title
Antiphonary single leaf (MS M.701).
Created
Northern Italy, second half of the 15th century.
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Description
1 leaf, matted : vellum, ill. ; 205 x 206 mm
Provenance
Purchased from Paul Gottschalk of Berlin in Feb. 1926 (listed in his 1925 catalogue 8, no. 115, plate 7; where it is described as Italian, 15th century, from Padua, probably school of Padua).
Notes
Ms. antiphonary single leaf (cutting); written and illuminated in northern Italy in the second half of the 15th century.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes in brown ink.
Texts: on the recto is a fragment of the response after the 8th lesson in matins for the feast of December 25; on the verso is a fragment of the 1st antiphon of lauds for the feast of December 25.
Decoration: historiated initial Q depicting the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Musical notation: 4-line staves in red ink; square notes in brown ink.
Texts: on the recto is a fragment of the response after the 8th lesson in matins for the feast of December 25; on the verso is a fragment of the 1st antiphon of lauds for the feast of December 25.
Decoration: historiated initial Q depicting the Annunciation to the Shepherds.
Script
textura.
Language
Latin
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